A third edition on the Introduction to Programming and Data Analysis with R workshop took place on March 12th and 13th, 2025. Roland Toth with the Methods Lab at the Weizenbaum Institute engaged almost 20 participants with essential methods of data analysis via comprehensive coverage of fundamental R programming concepts […]

In a joint effort, the Career Development and the Methods Lab are excited to announce the hybrid “Career Tutorial on LLMs for all Expertise Levels”. In this tutorial, beginning with fundamental concepts of LLMs and in-context learning, we’ll address the “Needle in the Haystack Problem” and compare ultra-long context models […]

On February 6th, 2025, LK Seiling facilitated a workshop for an Introduction to Git, with support from Sascha Kostadinoski and Quentin Bukold. This was co-organized by the Methods Lab and took place at the Weizenbaum institute. The hybrid event provided a thorough overview on the foundation of Git and its […]

The Weizenbaum research groups “Digital Economy, Internet Ecosystem, and Internet Policy” (Jan Batzner) and “Data, Algorithmic Systems and Ethics” (Dr. Fatma Elsafoury), supported by Fraunhofer FOKUS and TU Berlin, with contributors Zeerak Talat and Flor Miriam Plaza del Arco, are excited to introduce the workshop “Social Science and Language Models […]